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Laser soliton microcombs on silicon

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posted on 2023-06-08, 12:43 authored by Chao Xiang, Junqiu Liu, Joel Guo, Lin Chang, Rui Ning Wang, Wenle Weng, Jonathan Peters, Weiqiang Xie, Zeyu Zhang, Johann Riemensberger, Jennifer Selvidge, Tobias J. Kippenberg, John E. Bowers
Silicon photonics enables wafer-scale integration of optical functionalities on chip. A silicon-based laser frequency combs could significantly expand the applications of silicon photonics, by providing integrated sources of mutually coherent laser lines for terabit-per-second transceivers, parallel coherent LiDAR, or photonics-assisted signal processing. Here, we report on heterogeneously integrated laser soliton microcombs combining both InP/Si semiconductor lasers and ultralow-loss silicon nitride microresonators on monolithic silicon substrate. Thousands of devices are produced from a single wafer using standard CMOS techniques. Using on-chip electrical control of the microcomb-laser relative optical phase, these devices can output single-soliton microcombs with 100 GHz repetition rate. Our approach paves the way for large-volume, low-cost manufacturing of chip-based frequency combs for next-generation high-capacity transceivers, datacenters, space and mobile platforms.

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